| 单词 | capsule |
| 释义 | capsule (once / 1588 pages) 1nv 2nv A capsule is a very small container that closes tightly. Many medicines come in capsules that can be easily swallowed. Certain brands of laundry or dishwasher soap can be bought in capsule form, and you might hide a secret note or special mementos in a time capsule. A biologist probably thinks of a capsule as an anatomical structure that encloses an organ. This, in fact, is the word's earliest meaning — in French, it's a "membranous sac," from the Latin capsula, "small box or chest." WORD FAMILYcapsule: capsular, capsulate, capsuled, capsules, capsuling, capsulise, capsulize+/capsulate: capsulated, encapsulate/capsulize: capsulized, capsulizes/encapsulate: encapsulated, encapsulates, encapsulating, encapsulation/encapsulation: encapsulations USAGE EXAMPLESThe SLS booster and Orion capsule are being built by what are called “legacy” space companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Pope said she was 7 when she attended the theater dedication and capsule burial. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) Fowler hopes the book will dispel a more mainstream misapprehension: that this is a doomsday vault, a time capsule to unlock after a nuclear Armageddon. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) 1 1n a small container Hypo|Hyper paintball a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) 2n a structure that encloses a body part Hypo|Hyper malpighian body, malpighian corpuscle, renal corpuscle the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron eyeball, orbthe ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye lens capsulea tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing 3n a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses Hypo|Hyper bilocular capsule a capsule divided into two cells or compartments bollthe rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant siliqua, siliquenarrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae silicleshort broad silique occurring in some cruciferous plants pericarp, seed vessel the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary 4n a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside Hyper lozenge, pill, tab, tablet a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet 5n a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute Syn|Hyper ejection seat, ejector seat seat any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit) 6n a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space Syn|Hyper space capsule ballistic capsule, space vehicle, spacecraft a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun 7v enclose in a capsule 2Syn|Hyper capsulate, capsulise, capsulize enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering 1n a shortened version of a written work Syn|Hyper abridgement, abridgment, condensation sum-up, summary a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form 2v put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume Syn|Hyper capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate concentrate, condense, digest make more concise |
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